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[knutor]

I haven't had much success with toys.  So I employ um.  I turn labor on in Therapist, and give them mining or engraving.  That'll keep um safe.  Be sure to disable their hauling, or they will go outside to pickup wood and get snatched up.  The ones that look like good soldiers, I give pumping.

[XXSockXX]

Is there a way to move artifact large gems?
I have had this problem several times: If an artifact gem is produced in my starting fort it will remain there when I move everything to the actual fort later, due to the bug where large gems and gem crafts are not moved to any stockpile. I usually end up walling them in, so they can't get stolen.
I know I can move large gems with DFhack's autodump, but since artifacts can't be dumped this does not work here.

[LionsLinden]

I embarked on a 5x5 area containing two biomes. One of them is sinister. I get Infernal Murk clouds but normal weather and have lots of staring eyeballs etc. What I don't know is if the dead in the evil biome actually reanimate and what the clouds do. Any way to test if the evil biome reanimates? So far no wildlife spawned as part of the evil biome and secondly the clouds apparently do nothing but that would be a first time for me. Is it just some syndrome that "takes it time" to hit full effect?

[i2amroy]

I embarked on a 5x5 area containing two biomes. One of them is sinister. I get Infernal Murk clouds but normal weather and have lots of staring eyeballs etc. What I don't know is if the dead in the evil biome actually reanimate and what the clouds do. Any way to test if the evil biome reanimates? So far no wildlife spawned as part of the evil biome and secondly the clouds apparently do nothing but that would be a first time for me. Is it just some syndrome that "takes it time" to hit full effect?

Trap some animals in an area in the evil area and let them get hit by one of the clouds. See if they then develop any syndromes. IF they don't appear to develop any then test it on a dwarf.

As for the reanimation, just dump a dead animal corpse into a pit on the edge of the evil biome and wait a month or so. If it comes back then the biome reanimates, if it stays dead then it doesn't.

[knutor]

Is there a way to move artifact large gems?
I have had this problem several times: If an artifact gem is produced in my starting fort it will remain there when I move everything to the actual fort later, due to the bug where large gems and gem crafts are not moved to any stockpile. I usually end up walling them in, so they can't get stolen.
I know I can move large gems with DFhack's autodump, but since artifacts can't be dumped this does not work here.

I haven't had much luck moving them either.  They don't appear to be getting hauled to their stockpile, finished goods, in my fortresses.

[Sutremaine]

Is there a way to move artifact large gems?

Maybe you could do something with a workshop that requires a large gem to build and takes artifacts? Without a display case mod you'd have to add a gem requirement to the screw press or soapmaker's, but you can do this without your suddenly gemless workshops deconstructing when you make the temporary change.

[XXSockXX]

Is there a way to move artifact large gems?

Maybe you could do something with a workshop that requires a large gem to build and takes artifacts? Without a display case mod you'd have to add a gem requirement to the screw press or soapmaker's, but you can do this without your suddenly gemless workshops deconstructing when you make the temporary change.

I was kinda hoping to avoid modding since it is just a cosmetic issue and probably not worth the effort, but this looks like it could work, maybe I'll look into that. Thanks!

[LionsLinden]

So my fortress is in a split evil/savage embark and near a necromancer tower. It is the first time I build a fortress near a tower so I didn't know exactly what to expect. Now it seems I got ambushed by a necromancer, because I can't see him and around 20 zombie mussels attacked my dwarfs. So far I have no real military, just a slightly trained axedwarf of the starting seven. Some zombie yak hair or zombie mussels are no real threat, my soldier has 45 kills now and is already a talented fighter and axedwarf now but first off, this ambush happened at the same time my first caravan arrived, one of the wagons "died" and except for the outpost liason and one sturdy hammerdwarf the rest of the caravan turned 180 degrees and went home. So is this necromancer going to go away after some time? Because I got some zombies now sitting on my farmplots and while I have a big supply (around 300 roasts and 150 drinks) it is a bit annoying right now.

[walberg]

That doesn't sound like a necromancer to me - they usually come with an assortment of elf, dwarf and human corpses reanimated as zombies. That sounds more like you have a reanimating effect on the evil side of your embark, which can be a lot more fun than the necros... Enjoy!

[LionsLinden]

That doesn't sound like a necromancer to me - they usually come with an assortment of elf, dwarf and human corpses reanimated as zombies. That sounds more like you have a reanimating effect on the evil side of your embark, which can be a lot more fun than the necros... Enjoy!

It is definitely not an effect of the evil biome because I already tested if it reanimates and the reanimated dead weren't in the evil biome when they came back to life. According to the wiki it is a necromancer ambush (not a siege) and he doesn't bring zombies with him but reanimates the dead on the map. But will he go away in time?

[Telgin]

Goblin ambushers and siegers will give up eventually and leave, but I've never had a necromancer amusher so I don't know if they follow the same rules.  A cage trap network might be an effective way of capturing him if you have an idea of where he might be hanging out.

[knutor]

Typical Tower(undead) neighbor siege, by the sounds of it.  Not evil terrain entities.

I turn secrets off in advanced world gen for Fortress play.  It is a must.  That is for Adventure play.  If you really want a no win situation, pick a Tower neighbor whose at war with your civilization.  Ya won't have to wait long for the FUN to arrive.

Limiting embark choices and avoiding Tower neighbors is just too cumbersome to cope with for me.  So I disable Secrets.  I also disable CSI:Armok.  One way to make certain its a Tower siege is to observe the undead behavior. 

Do the undead, sprint faster than a cheetah on a 5hr energy drink?

[Ploder]

Is there a good way to capture goblin thieves alive?

[XXSockXX]

Is there a good way to capture goblin thieves alive?

Cage traps.

[LionsLinden]

Okay, it is indeed a necromancer causing all the mussels to reanimate. And since it is no normal siege (I guess if it was a normal siege he would have brought some zombies along) does she leave or do I have a permanent resident now? Oh and I looked her up in LegendsViewer. She is a 300 years old dwarven necromancer who was the General of one of the other civs for some 80 years right at the dawn of time. And she wrote some pretty darn good books: "The Caverns: The Definitive Guide", "The Unholy Dwarves" or another one "The Fortress: The Truth". Seems to me she knows what is going on in many forts